Quotes About Comprehension

The first challenge is that, you cannot expect everyone to get the same understanding of the book. Are we not all unique in life?

The mystery of knowledge is that once you know, you won't have anything more to ask. Thus, closing the door to ask more exciting questions.

To understand the philosophical ideologies of Karl Marx, you have to read between the lines.

We are only carried away by the skills of public speaking, but none of us cares about the skill of listening. Thus, learning has become a burden to many of us.

We need to know something deep inside before we realise it. Otherwise, we cannot profit from anything by ignoring its existence.

You can see the beauty in things only after learning the meaning of the word 'beautiful'.

O]nce you can read, you can no longer open a book and see a jumble of letters; after you get to know someone's face, you can't see her as a stranger.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

How someone else perceives and understands us depends only 7 percent on what we say, 38 percent on how we say it, and 55 percent on what we are doing when we say it.

All of mankind's problems are a result of one major dilemma. What's this dilemma? Possession without comprehension; assignment without instruction; resources without knowledge; having everything but not knowing why. Essentially, the dilemma is that we lack understanding. Without understanding, life is an experiment, and frustration is the reward.

Listen with your eyes because here you cannot decipher what is said out of the effort of mouths.

I feel about John ['s gospel] like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her. (Following Jesus, p. 27.)

To know and no to do is not to know.

Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.

None so deaf as those that will not hear; none so blind as those that will not see.

Merely knowing a word, moreover, doesn't necessarily make you capable of using it.

I see the quintessential task of the clinician as one of coming to know him-or herself sufficiently to be able to register the experience of the other in progressively more profound and also more useful ways. This process begins with our own discomfort at finding ourselves sitting in the chair that has somehow become designated as "the authority": the person ostensibly in charge of something we haven't even begun to comprehend. —MARILYN CHARLES (in press)

That I have not seen does not mean I cannot appreciate.

Reductionism is like a kid who argues that whatever does not fit into his toy box is not a toy.

We've limited Christianity to salvation and sanctification," he said. But "Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens—not just how people get saved and what to stay away from." 17

Feeling my anger and sadness were beyond my comprehension. These were skills I didn't learn as a child and didn't even know I lacked.

That's one thing about Scott—he makes everything seem simple, because in his mind everything is.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

Having access to knowledge didn't always mean understanding things. I do not entirely understand people.